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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
John T Psaropoulos

The ’12-Day War’ ended with an attack on Qatar. Why didn’t it escalate?

Interceptor missiles are fired, after Iran's armed forces said they targeted the Al-Udeid base in a missile attack, as seen from Doha, Qatar, on June 23, 2025 [Reuters]

When United States President Donald Trump entered the war between Israel and Iran late on Saturday night, the region was braced for escalation.

The US dropped 17 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs and two dozen cruise missiles on Iran’s nuclear facilities at Natanz, Fordow and Isfahan, assisting Israel, which had already been trading missile fire with Tehran since July 13.

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